The Killing averages 2.7M viewers

The two-hour series premiere of AMC’s The Killing averaged 2.7M viewers. Including two encores that aired later that night (11-1a.m. and 1am to 3am), the premiere drew 4.7M viewers for the night. That’s second only to the series premiere of The Walking Dead (albeit by a fairly large margin–5.3M for ‘Dead’) for the most-watched premiere on the network.